Adobe can take a long time to dry and become hard.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The take-aways are that an equity bias is an absolutely sensible underpinning for investors with long time horizons but that diversification is important.

对于长期投资者来说,股权偏好的存在,是长期投资获利的重要基础,但是分散投资也很重要

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But it's going to take a long time, I think.

虽然这会花费很长的一段时间。

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"It took us a long time to get here. It is going to take some time for us to work through this.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

As time increases, the angle increases and we can ask, "How long does it take for the particle to come back to the starting point?"

这个角度随着时间在增加,我们会问,"质点需要多长时间,才能转到起点"

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Congress will take its annual long recess in August, and Democrats hope to use the time to build support for health-care reform around the country.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

It's the time in which but it's the time in which long distance commerce began to take hold, because of transportation revolutions: canals, roads, railroads in particular.

它是一个时期,这是一个远距离商业开始产生影响的时代,主要原因便是运输方式的革新,运河,公路,特别是铁路

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"What we are seeing China is that wages are gradually converging to those levels in the U.S.and Europe, but this convergence is going to take a very long time."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

You had to be very confident because it was going to take a long time, a fantastic amount of labor, a tremendous amount of money to do that.

你不得不相信,建造一座蜂巢墓要花费很长时间,大量的劳动力,以及庞大的金钱支持

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"And it's a tough mission, but I think it is an attainable mission as long as we take the time to make sure that the mission is out there and laid out pretty well.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

You could think, you have to think earnings are going to go up twelve-fold to get it down to four times earnings, which will take a long, long time.

你可能会想，你必然认为收益会上涨12倍,让它回落到四倍于原来收益的地方，会花费很长一段时间。

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"This was a first and therefore you had to deal with his absurd and vile policies and the analysis of them had to take a long time and you had to get right down deep into him and how he thought,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Well, you can't adopt the policy of "I'm going to wait for this pig to dance " and when it does I'm going to reinforce it" because it's going to take you a very long time.

那么，你就不能说,“我要等这头猪跳舞,然后再对它进行强化“,因为这会花掉你很长的时间。

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Here is the pitch in--of--a string an octave higher so you can see it this way. As you probably know, if you take a long string and pluck it, it's going to take that long string a long time to pass that sort of cycle, if you will, just one pass through that cycle.

这也是个音高,一个高八度的音弦,你可以这样这样看 你们可能知道,如果你拨动长弦,长弦要经过很长时间,才能完成一个震动周期,如果你想,可以尝试下

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And again it doesn't always take a very long time.

而且不用很久。

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.. In 1799, it would cost so much to mail a letter-- I don't know exactly, something like $10 or $20 to mail a letter at today's rate-- and it would take a long time get there.

在1799年，寄封信需要花费-,我也不清楚具体的数字,大概相当于现在的10到20块钱-,而且还要花很久才能送达。

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